Two-Load Radiometer Precision and Accuracy

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 58-67

  Goodberlet, Mark A ^a   Mead, James B ^a  

^a ProSensing Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Calibration; microwave radiometry; microwave receivers; radiometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 85008032362     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: 15580644     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2005.860206     Document Type: Article

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